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General Assembly of Virginia.Extra session.Senate. Monday, May 12th, 1862
The Senate was called to order at 12 M., by Lieut. Gov. Mon
The Clerk presented a joint resolution from the House of Delegates, announcing its concurrence in a resolution to pay L. D. Haymond a sum of money.
Mr. Nath asked and obtained leave to introduce a bill to raise an army of the State of Virginia, to be to the Confederate army.
Read a first time and ordered to be printed.
Mr. Ball offered the following, which was adopted:
Resolved, That so much of the Governor's Message as refers to the election of a successor to Hon. John W. Tyler, as Judge of the 9th Judicial Group, be referred to the Committee for Courts of Justice.
Mr. Whittle offered the following resolution, which was adopted:
Resolved, That 1,000 copies of all acts passed by the Confederate Government for impressing property for the public use, be published by the Public Printer, for the information of th
House of Delegates. Monday, May 12, 1862.
The House was opened with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Woodridge, of the P E Church.
Mr. Crockett presented a communication from Judges A S Fulton, David McComas, Evermont Ward, and G D Camden deputed by the citizens of Southwestern Virginia to petition the General Assembly to use all his exertions towards the restoration of Gen. John B Floyd to his command.
The communication called attention to the fact that Southwestern Virginia possesses more means for the successful prosecution of the war, in the shape of salt, lead, and iron, than any other section of country of its extent in the entire confederacy.
How that this valuable region was threatened by the enemy, it is important that it should be well defended.
The means of protection was already there — the mentand the leader — but that leader, General John B. Floyd, was deprived of his authority to command.
The people were anxious for Gen. Floyd again to take the field and thousa
[for the Richmond Dispatch.]
the policy of the Yankee Government — the beautiful city of Richmond--Hon. Its fall can be decided. Richmond, Va., May 12, 1862.
I think the policy of the whining, hypocritical, p- singing Yankee nation is now about settled.
It is to subjugate the South, rob her people of all their property, of every sort, for the purpose of paying the almost fabulous Yankee national debt, and to drive all true Southern men into exile.
To carry out this stupendous scheme of subjugation and robbery, it is important for the invaders to obtain possession of this city, and for the purpose of accomplishing this object a powerful, or at least a numerous army, under the command of the most skillful of Yankee Generals, is now actually within twenty-five miles of the Capital of the Confederate States of America.
If Richmond should fall into the hands of the enemy, such fall, although not fatal to the cause of Southern liberty and independence, would be a ter